ABC Far North and the Cairns Show Society's bush poetry competition is back on the wireless, enchanting listeners and celebrating tales from regional and the rugged outback characters that we love so dearly. ...

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Her early days were split between Sweden and New York City, and her influences ranged from Miles Davis to Yoko Ono and Ari Up. 's distinctive vocals and powerful lyrics are on show on her new album , and Australian audiences are about to see and hear her in concertwith band RocketNumberNinefor the ...

Recently RN was involved with a poetry schools project with the Red Room Company. The project asked school children to write a poem around a special object - an object that has great significance and even symbolic meaning for the person, despite its apparent ordinariness.A massive 2,500 poems ...